Rigging companies exist to do the heavy lifting for individuals, small businesses, and large industries. Rigging in San Antonio has grown with the city and the surrounding area’s economy, and flourished with the expansion of the city’s highway system. Riggers are more than the “rope and pulley” operators of old, or even the crane operators of the modern era. The riggers of today are involved in all aspects of heavy, sensitive, and over-sized loads.
Rigging is closely linked to the petroleum, construction, manufacture, HVAC, medical, defense, and agriculture industries. Rigging involves all the logistics of transport, from the planning phase and initial loading to the transport, final placement, and reassembly of loads. Over 30 companies provide rigging in the San Antonio area, and can move or transport anything from a single piece of heavy machinery to a factory or farm’s worth of equipment, to an entire building. Services provided by these rigging companies include:
• Packaging, crating, loading, securing, and hoisting of materials to be moved.
• The handling of specialized items like scales, medical equipment, and machinery requiring calibration after moving.
• When necessary, creating and maintaining moisture-free and clean room environments throughout the moving process.
• Disassembling and reassembling pieces of machinery or entire factories.
• Repairing, aligning, and calibrating machinery (duties assigned to riggers called “millwrights”).
• The transportation of the items by truck, rail, or boat locally, across the country, or internationally.
• The rental and operation of cranes, forklifts, and other hoisting and placement equipment.
These companies are essential to the great economy of San Antonio, servicing its many hospitals and laboratories, business and residential construction sites, the area’s many military bases, and its six Fortune 500 companies. Most San Antonio rigging companies now take on all the responsibilities of safe transportation, whether moving across country, navigating a shorter move along Interstates 10, 35, or 37 of downtown San Antonio, or exchanging a single defective part in a larger piece of machinery. As small business and heavy industry alike have grown in San Antonio, most rigging companies have added painting and full millwright, inspection, and testing services. Rigging in San Antonio is an invaluable facet of countless industries, both locally and across the state of Texas.
